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I’ve not had a good introduction to MCollective slide deck ever, I usually just give demos and talk through it. I was invited to talk in San Francisco about MCollective so made a new deck for this talk. On the night I gave people the choice of talks between the new Introduction talk and the Read More

I recently gave a talk titled “Managing Puppet Using MCollective” at the Puppet Camp in Ghent. The talk introduces a complete rewrite of the MCollective plugin used to manage Puppet. The plugin can be found on our Github repo as usual. Significantly this is one of a new breed of plugin that we ship as Read More

I’ve recently been thinking about ways to do graphs on the CLI. We’ve written a new Puppet Agent for MCollective that can gather all sorts of interesting data from your server estate and I’d really like to be able to show this data on the CLI. This post isn’t really about MCollective though the ideas Read More

Most Nagios systems does a lot of forking especially those built around something like NRPE where each check is a connection to be made to a remote system. On one hand I like NRPE in that it puts the check logic on the nodes using a standard plugin format and provides a fairly re-usable configuration Read More

Yesterday I mentioned on Twitter that I was playing with the MongoDB pub/sub features and that it worked quite well for my needs. What I didn’t mention was that the documentation and blog posts were a bit all over the show and the Ruby examples I saw didn’t actually do what they said they did Read More